Opening film | Water[1] |
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Closing film | Edison |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 335 films |
Festival date | September 8, 2005 | –September 17, 2005
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres.[2][3][4][5][6]
At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded:[7]
Because the vote for the People's Choice Award was so close, at the awards ceremony Piers Handling (festival co-director) announced four runners-up.[8] However, in the subsequent reporting there was confusion about the order of the runners-up. As reported by ScreenDaily, the results of the People's Choice Award voting was as follows:[9]
Certain other publications indicated (probably erroneously) that the order of the runners-up was reversed, with Mother of Mine finishing second to Tsotsi.[10][11][12]
Featuring Don Owen
In December, TIFF released its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films programmers had selected as the ten best Canadian films of the year.[14] These were screened as a followup "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in early 2006, with public screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.